Red Bull had both their cars on the front row for the sixth time this year, but once again they weren’t able to translate that into a one-two finish.

Despite that there was plenty for them to celebrate in their 100th Grand Prix start as they took the lead in the constructors’ championship and Mark Webber returned to the top of the drivers’ rankings.

Sebastian Vettel extended his run of consecutive pole positions to four. It was his seventh of the season and 12th of his career, giving him as many as Gerhard Berger and David Coulthard.

Vettel’s pole position lap was one of the quickest around the Hungaroring since it was re-configured in 2003. His 1’18.773 lap was slightly slower than that set by Rubens Barrichello in his Ferrari in first qualifiyng in 2004, 1’18.436.

Vettel also logged the sixth fastest lap of his career. But there would be no race win for him once again.

That went to Webber, claiming his fourth victory of the year and sixth of his career in his 150th start.

Webber has now won as many races as Tony Brooks, John Surtees, Jochen Rindt, Gilles Villeneuve, Jacques Laffite, Riccardo Patrese and Ralf Schumacher.

This was Red Bull’s 100th Grand Prix start (but their 101st appearance – they did not start at Indianapolis in 2005) and 12th victory.

Two drivers scored the best result of their careers so far: Vitaly Petrov (fifth) and Nico H?â??lkenberg (sixth). Petrov also had his best qualifying position, seventh.

Pedro de la Rosa scored his first points since the 2006 Brazilian Grand Prix, when he was eighth.

Mercedes failed to score a point in a race for the first time this year. That leaves Red Bull and McLaren the only teams to score in every round so far.

Average position change

How many places a driver has gained in each race on average.

Driver

Position change

Karun Chandhok

+6.50

Bruno Senna

+5.20

Heikki Kovalainen

+5.00

Lucas di Grassi

+4.83

Sakon Yamamoto

+4.50

Kamui Kobayashi

+4.17

Jaime Alguersuari

+4.00

Jenson Button

+3.55

Jarno Trulli

+2.71

Timo Glock

+2.67

Vitantonio Liuzzi

+2.50

Sebastien Buemi

+2.38

Pedro de la Rosa

+2.20

Lewis Hamilton

+1.73

Adrian Sutil

+1.20

Robert Kubica

+1.10

Rubens Barrichello

+0.73

Vitaly Petrov

+0.67

Nico Rosberg

+0.45

Michael Schumacher

+0.27

Fernando Alonso

0.00

Felipe Massa

-0.25

Nico H?â??lkenberg

-0.56

Sebastian Vettel

-1.70

Mark Webber

-1.91

Average grid position

Pos

Driver

Average starting position

1

Sebastian Vettel

1.8

2

Mark Webber

2.2

3

Lewis Hamilton

5.8

4

Nico Rosberg

6.6

5

Felipe Massa

6.8

6

Robert Kubica

6.9

7

Fernando Alonso

7.0

8

Jenson Button

7.8

9

Michael Schumacher

9.3

10

Rubens Barrichello

10.5

11

Adrian Sutil

11.1

12

Nico H?â??lkenberg

11.9

13

Vitaly Petrov

13.4

14

Pedro de la Rosa

13.5

15

Sebastien Buemi

13.9

16

Vitantonio Liuzzi

14.5

17

Kamui Kobayashi

14.6

18

Jaime Alguersuari

15.9

19

Heikki Kovalainen

19.0

20

Jarno Trulli

19.3

21

Timo Glock

20.2

22

Lucas di Grassi

22.3

23

Bruno Senna

22.3

24

Sakon Yamamoto

23.3

25

Karun Chandhok

23.5

Time out-qualified team mate

Apart from Sakon Yamamoto, every driver has now qualified in front of a team mate at least once this year:

Pos

Driver

Times out-qualified team mate

1

Robert Kubica

11

1

Timo Glock

11

3

Sebastien Buemi

10

3

Adrian Sutil

10

3

Nico Rosberg

10

7

Rubens Barrichello

8

6

Fernando Alonso

9

7

Lewis Hamilton

8

7

Bruno Senna

8

10

Pedro de la Rosa

7

12

Jarno Trulli

6

10

Sebastian Vettel

7

14

Mark Webber

5

12

Heikki Kovalainen

6

14

Kamui Kobayashi

5

16

Karun Chandhok

4

16

Jenson Button

4

18

Felipe Massa

3

18

Nico H?â??lkenberg

3

20

Michael Schumacher

2

20

Vitantonio Liuzzi

2

20

Jaime Alguersuari

2

23

Lucas di Grassi

1

23

Vitaly Petrov

1

25

Sakon Yamamoto

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Spotted any interesting facts and stats in the Hungarian Grand Prix? Post them in the comments below.

The average position change is a bit misleading, if you regularly start at the back you gain places due to retirements. But if you regularly start at the front you can only go backwards.

The three names that stand out from those stats are Kamui Kobayashi, Jaime Alguersuari & Jenson Button. But this indicates more that their qualifying positions are not reflective of their actual race pace.

Vettel has looked almost just as dissappointed all year when he did not win it and was on the podium. Lewis was not really looking happy in Turkey either. And both Alonso and surely Massa were not looking happy last race.
More of a record of unhappy podium finishers this year.

I don’t have the time to go and look it up, but if anyone does, I’m wondering… in how many races Schumacher has been punished by the stewards/FIA – either by drive-through, stop/go, black flag, grid drop, points deduction, etc? What percentage of his starts?

I’m not sure he would be in an F1 bad boy list. He was disqualified from the 94 British GP for ignoring a black flag and from the 94 Belgian GP for having excessive plank wear, and he was of course disqualified from the entire 97 World Championship. Other than those I can’t think of many other indiscretions (Monaco 06 obviously).

That’s not bad for someone who has been in F1 since 1991. The only other current driver with a career of comparable length, Rubens Barrichello, whas been disqualified from two races (99 Spain and 2008 Aus).

That’s exactly my point. MSC hasn’t actually be DSQed or penalised as many times as you would think. His record is actually pretty clean for a guy who has been involved in F1 for as long as he has, and who has been involved in as many contraversial incidents as he has. (I never thought I would hear myself say that!)

The championship leader has never won a race so far this year: Alonso, Massa, Button, Webber and Hamilton have all been in the lead but have never won while they’ve been there. The second-placed driver in the championship has also never won this year.

Vettel has never led the championship in his career, coming closest when he was tied on points with Webber, but the Australian had more wins at the time.

Webber has become the only man to regain the lead of the championship; all the other leaders have had one, unbroken spell at the top.

Keith, I really would like to understand the “Average position change” box. The stats shows Alonso with an average of 0,00 and Massa with -0,25. Does it means that Massa actually LOST more positions than what he WON, while Alonso have lost and won in equal proportions?
Thanks a lot.